Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson

Yep we broke the story about the Google Denial of Service Attack first - now Google itself explains!Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson

You Can't Beat The System

Google Thriller! Google shuts down Michael Jackson as DOS attack threat

The moment that Michael Jackson died - he died on Google

Google made a deadly mistake of interfering with the wisdom of the crowd!

The moment that the news of the death of Michael Jackson (two hours ago) started to hit the worldwide airwaves, the servers of Google closed him down thinking that the instant massive number of searches for the term Michael Jackson was a Denial of Service Attack (DOS), where multiple servers are used to send the sanme request (in recursive loops).

Google killed Wacko!



Wow, the lesson here is release your food to Google very slowly otherwise you might just be a DOS attack - you wish!

Twitter died too!

Official Google Blog: Outpouring of searches for the late Michael Jackson

Rockin Robin - Michael Jackson Brings Down Twitter Real Time Search

It's got to be a first in the short history of Twitter, but the recently added and much criticised, by the purists, Twitter search facilty - has ground to a halt on the news of the death of Michael Jackson. Two hours on and it is now showing results from 2hrs ago ...hmm!
Whatever the cause, more likely to be server overload than any programming or database scalability problem, it's impossible to get the servers to return Michael Jackson search queries and hundreds of variations of his name dominate the trending topics and probably will for days.

This story is going to Tweet and Tweet for quite a while yet we suspect!

You heard it here at The System first folks!



Bye Bye Wacko!